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Apple releases a update for Airport On Os X . According to Apple website the "Attackers on the wireless network may cause system crashes, privilege elevation, or arbitrary code execution," Apple said in the alert describing one of the flaws. "Arbitrary code execution" means the intruder can commandeer the system.So what does that mean to apple users,According to Cnet News"SecureWorks demonstrated at the Black Hat security confab how an attacker could gain complete control over a laptop by sending malformed network traffic to a vulnerable computer. They showed a video of a successful attack on an Apple MacBook."When Apple was asked about the secure flaw,company representative told cnet "the company itself hunted for bugs in its wireless software and uncovered the vulnerabilities, the representative said.

"In August, SecureWorks approached Apple with a potential flaw that they felt could affect wireless drivers on Macs," the representative said. "They did not supply us with any information to allow us to identify a specific problem, so we initiated an internal audit.
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